On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:04:44 -0700 Dave N6NZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Dave, Thank you for your answer. > Hmmm... I guess pstoedit only does ps->dxf, not dxf->ps. In any case, > pstoedit handles some cases of ps->dxf quite oddly. I meant dxf->ps with something else and ps->pcb with pstoedit. > If you get forced to roll your own, QCad http://ribbonsoft.com has a > GPL'ed and very robust C++ library for reading .dxf files. I've used > it, and it is reliable and reasonably easy to use. Especially if you > confine yourself to only a few entities. For instance, if you > restrict yourself to reading a single layer of the drawing, and > ignore anything but straight lines (for PCB outline) and circles (for > screw holes) it should be pretty simple. You can ignore color and > dashed-line type and elliptical arcs and area fills and..... all the > crap that makes processing dxf difficult. I see. The idea came from my day job, where we receive data from Pro/E, and there is a tool that converts it to a our PCB software (Zucken's BD). > I guess the one trick is that in dxf files the origin can be > anywhere, but in PCB we are always in quadrant IV so you would need > to translate the coordinate space. That could be easy to implement. Any summer student to volunteer? Levente -- Levente Kovacs http://logonex.eu _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
